The companies said on-road testing began in December, led by Nuro using engineering prototypes supervised by safety operators, a move toward a planned robotaxi launch in the San Francisco Bay Area ...

2026 will be the year the rubber meets the road in the deployment of self-driving vehicles. Uber Technologies shareholders should take that as their cue to sell, one firm says.

A 15-year-old boy has been charged as an adult with murder after an Uber driver was found shot to death early New Year’s Day after a carjacking in a suburban Atlanta community, authorities said. The ...

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Uber admits it is routinely approving drivers with violent felony convictions — including assault, child abuse, and stalking — so long as those convictions were more than seven years ago. That's in ...

An investigation by the New York Times into Uber's background checks and safety procedures for its drivers found a patchwork approach that opens the door for violent felons to drive for the ...

Uber and Lyft will start testing Baidu’s Apollo Go robotaxis in London in 2026, joining Waymo and local startup Wayve as companies that will have autonomous vehicles in the city next year. Lyft CEO ...

Dec 22 (Reuters) - Uber (UBER.N), opens new tab and Lyft (LYFT.O), opens new tab said on Monday they were teaming up with Chinese tech giant Baidu (9888.HK), opens new tab to launch driverless taxi ...

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The ride-hailing giant’s background check process was intended to speed drivers onto its network while keeping costs down, internal documents show. The ride-hailing giant’s background check process ...